The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that it was used by German mercenaries during the American Revolution. 1637 - First use of firearms ...

The flintlock ignition system reigned for two centuries, with virtually no alteration. The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that it was used ...

It was a repeating flintlock musket that could fire up to 20 rounds per minute, and it was a musket that Ian McCollum believes could be considered a machine gun. In the early 1790s, the U.S. Army ...

44-caliber gun to shoot Billy the Kid – who was born ... set by Christie’s in 2002 for a pair of flintlock saddle pistols carried by George Washington during the Revolutionary War, Bonhams ...